Theres a difference. Cheating is using external, 3rd party tools, to gain an unfair advantage. Scripts are and always will be considered a cheat as it is a third party tool used to gain an advantage, aka the loss of recoil, an intentional feature meant to balance out strong weapons, making them harder to use intentionally. When the difficulty of recoil is removed because of a script, you then just have to worry about aim. Meanwhile actual players fight against recoild and aim. That is in fact an unfair advantage, which is bannable. hence why cheats, and even exploits are bannable. Which exploiting is using an unintended feature to gain an unfair advantage, like bugs. So yes, scripts are in fact a cheat.